Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for XAML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited XAML over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 597 704 798
Rank change year-on-year +107 +94 -141
Contract jobs citing XAML 1 15 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.025% 0.057%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.008% 0.072% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 39
10th Percentile - £346 £485
25th Percentile - - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £750
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% -20.00% +62.16%
75th Percentile - £688 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £613 £500
% change year-on-year -30.61% +22.50% +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

XAML is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,747 20,965 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.44% 35.05% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,054 15,147 23,495
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 477 511
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.39 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £77.00 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year - +26.90% +15.88%

XAML
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing XAML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for XAML in the UK

XAML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing XAML.

Daily rate trend for XAML in the UK

XAML
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing XAML.

Hourly rate trend for XAML in the UK

XAML
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing XAML within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +128 1 £425 +13.33% 3
England +114 1 £425 -29.17% 8
UK excluding London +55 1 £425 -30.61% 7
Midlands - 1 £425 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £425 -

XAML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Xamarin